#vocation

In any love-story there are usually two stages or phases. There is the initial stage, where love is expressed by the giving of gifts, especially the gift of self. Then there comes a time when it is no longer enough to give gifts to the beloved, but one has to be ready to suffer for her or for him. Only then can it be seen whether the love is real. In the story of a vocation to consecrated virginity there are also usually two stages. There is the initial stage of the vocation, when, spurred on by grace and attracted by the ideal, one joyfully and enthusiastically says, "Yes, Lord, here I am!" Then comes the time of solitude of heart, of weariness, of crisis, when, in order to maintain that "Yes," one has to die ↗

— Raniero Cantalamessa

#solitude #vocation #love

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is. ↗

— Giovanni Ribisi

#path #something #vocation #you #your

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. ↗

— Georges Simenon

#unhappiness #vocation #writing

I think it would be well, and proper, and obedient, and pure, to grasp your one necessity and not let it go, to dangle from it limp wherever it takes you. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#necessity #passion #vocation #obedience

J'ai lu quelque part que la mort était une société secrète...Ce qui n'est qu'une fin, un pis-aller, et c'est peu dire, pour la plupart des êtres, ne peut-il devenir pour d'autres une vocation? - Quelquefois, et jamais autant que ce soir, je me le suis demandé. Et - comme toutes les vocations - contagieuse. ↗

— Julien Gracq

#vocation #death

If you find what you do each day seems to have no link to any higher purpose, you probably want to rethink what you're doing. ↗

— Ronald Heifetz

#careers #jobs #vocation #change

With nearly all students leaving public high school having taken some vocational education, this bill continues to provide communities with the funding necessary to give students an edge on career training. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#career #communities #continues #edge #education

One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time. ↗

— Idries Shah

#beliefs #believe #come #illustrative #in the past

He had been a boy who liked to draw, according to my friend, so he became an architect. Children who drew,I learned, became architects; I had thought they became painters. My friend explained that it was not proper to become a painter; it couldn’t be done. I resigned myself to architecture school and a long life of drawing buildings. It was a pity, for I disliked buildings, considering them only a stiffer and more ample form of clothing, and no more important. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#drawing #painting #vocation #architecture

Faith gives you a concept of the dignity and worth of all work, even simple work, without which work could bore you. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#vocation #work #faith